Author: Aidan Higgins
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564783912
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism. Windy Arbours includes pieces written between 1970-1990 and is the first collection of his reviews to be published. Incredibly well-read, Higgins covers writers from around the world, from relatively well-known authors such as William Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, and Jorge Luis Borges, to more obscure writers such as Ralph Cusack and Dorothy Nelson. Serving as an informative guidebook about contemporary fiction, Higgins's criticism is always insightful, and oftentimes entertainingly acerbic.
Windy Arbours
Author: Aidan Higgins
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564783912
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism. Windy Arbours includes pieces written between 1970-1990 and is the first collection of his reviews to be published. Incredibly well-read, Higgins covers writers from around the world, from relatively well-known authors such as William Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, and Jorge Luis Borges, to more obscure writers such as Ralph Cusack and Dorothy Nelson. Serving as an informative guidebook about contemporary fiction, Higgins's criticism is always insightful, and oftentimes entertainingly acerbic.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564783912
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
In addition to his novels and stories, Aidan Higgins--one of Ireland's most respected contemporary writers--has written a large body of criticism. Windy Arbours includes pieces written between 1970-1990 and is the first collection of his reviews to be published. Incredibly well-read, Higgins covers writers from around the world, from relatively well-known authors such as William Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, and Jorge Luis Borges, to more obscure writers such as Ralph Cusack and Dorothy Nelson. Serving as an informative guidebook about contemporary fiction, Higgins's criticism is always insightful, and oftentimes entertainingly acerbic.
Voices from Chernobyl
Author: Svetlana Alexievich
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1943150990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1943150990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and uncertainty that they still live with. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time."
The Mystery of the Sardine
Author: Stefan Themerson
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
When an unknown black poodle inexplicably explodes in philosophy professor Timothy Chesterton-Brown's back yard--paralyzing the professor and killing his guest--the "mystery of the sardine" begins. Its solution will involve such unwitting detectives as a twelve-year-old mathematician, his mother, his beloved, a palmist named Miss Prentice, and a bureaucrat dubbed the Minister of Imponderabilia. The clues they unearth--drawing on logic, the occult, intuition, and everything in between--lead them far away from the tiny seaside town where they begin. We follow them to Majorca, Rome, Warsaw, and London, but in the end, the solution lies beyond even the furthest and most magical reaches of reason.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
When an unknown black poodle inexplicably explodes in philosophy professor Timothy Chesterton-Brown's back yard--paralyzing the professor and killing his guest--the "mystery of the sardine" begins. Its solution will involve such unwitting detectives as a twelve-year-old mathematician, his mother, his beloved, a palmist named Miss Prentice, and a bureaucrat dubbed the Minister of Imponderabilia. The clues they unearth--drawing on logic, the occult, intuition, and everything in between--lead them far away from the tiny seaside town where they begin. We follow them to Majorca, Rome, Warsaw, and London, but in the end, the solution lies beyond even the furthest and most magical reaches of reason.
The Succubus
Author: Vlado Žabot
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785955
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Reissue of the translation published in Ljubljana by the Slovene Writers' Association, 2007.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785955
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Reissue of the translation published in Ljubljana by the Slovene Writers' Association, 2007.
Christopher Unborn
Author: Carlos Fuentes
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564783394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Mexico, 1991: Black acid rain falls on "Makesicko City", the most polluted, most populated city in the world. Amid this apocalyptic landscape a prize is being offered to the first child born on the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. That child is the narrator of this passionate, savage novel by one of the world's preeminent writers.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564783394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Mexico, 1991: Black acid rain falls on "Makesicko City", the most polluted, most populated city in the world. Amid this apocalyptic landscape a prize is being offered to the first child born on the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. That child is the narrator of this passionate, savage novel by one of the world's preeminent writers.
Summer in Termuren
Author: Louis Paul Boon
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
"Spanning two world wars and anticipating a catastrophic future, Louis Paul Boon captures the history of the twentieth century by exploring the twisted, corrupt lives of the inhabitants of one small town - a microcosm for the changing world."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
"Spanning two world wars and anticipating a catastrophic future, Louis Paul Boon captures the history of the twentieth century by exploring the twisted, corrupt lives of the inhabitants of one small town - a microcosm for the changing world."--BOOK JACKET.
Writing from the Margins
Author: Catriona Ryan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443879797
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The Irish short story tradition occupies a unique space in world literature. Rooted in an ancient oral storytelling culture, the Irish short story has underwent numerous transitions, from 19th century Anglo-Irish writers such as William Carleton through to the 20th century's groundbreaking impact of George Moore's The Untilled Field. George Moore's work inspired the next generation of Irish Catholic writers such as Joyce, Frank O'Connor and Benedict Kiely, who foregrounded the backbone of the ...
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443879797
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The Irish short story tradition occupies a unique space in world literature. Rooted in an ancient oral storytelling culture, the Irish short story has underwent numerous transitions, from 19th century Anglo-Irish writers such as William Carleton through to the 20th century's groundbreaking impact of George Moore's The Untilled Field. George Moore's work inspired the next generation of Irish Catholic writers such as Joyce, Frank O'Connor and Benedict Kiely, who foregrounded the backbone of the ...
Realm of the Dead
Author: 内田百間
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In this collection of short stories, the lands of both the living and the dead are equally dark and mysterious worlds where logic and reality are subject to constant change and where ideas about identity and self are continually questioned.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In this collection of short stories, the lands of both the living and the dead are equally dark and mysterious worlds where logic and reality are subject to constant change and where ideas about identity and self are continually questioned.
The Lecture
Author: Lydie Salvayre
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564783516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
"One of the oddest characters in contemporary fiction, the lecturer can't help but digress about his sad life in the midst of his speech, although he's too self-deluded to realize quite how sad it is. Salvayre's The Lecture is an example of political double-talk and misogyny run wild."--Jacket.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564783516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
"One of the oddest characters in contemporary fiction, the lecturer can't help but digress about his sad life in the midst of his speech, although he's too self-deluded to realize quite how sad it is. Salvayre's The Lecture is an example of political double-talk and misogyny run wild."--Jacket.
I'm Not Stiller
Author: Max Frisch
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
"Readers cannot but feel the force of what remains one of the most important novels of the post-war years." Times Literary Supplement
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
"Readers cannot but feel the force of what remains one of the most important novels of the post-war years." Times Literary Supplement